10 Key Steps To Joint Venture Setup And Long Term Success

Written by Stephen Mistretta


The goal of this article is to show you how to start and maintain a successful Joint Venture Program. 1. Choosing Good Partners One ofrepparttar keys to a successful JV is to pick high quality and high traffic sites with which to partner. In this case, and below, we will be usingrepparttar 118355 example of selling an Ebook that you have created. The topic of this particular Ebook is “Bass Fishing.” An easy way to find potential JV partners is to go to Google and type inrepparttar 118356 top three terms related to your topic. In our example we type in “Bass fishing” Large mouth Bass and Small mouth Bass. Withrepparttar 118357 size ofrepparttar 118358 Internet, andrepparttar 118359 searching capabilities of Google, you can write your Ebook on almost any subject and find a large list of websites that cover it. I suggest starting with a group of 50 sites, total, with which to work. 2. Choosing Quality Sites Look for Quality growing sites within your niche market. Once you get a list of sites (I suggest you break them down into groups of five) you should then go to www.Alexa.com and download their toolbar. Check each site’s overall growth rate and userepparttar 118360 “wayback” feature to get an idea about how much work they have put intorepparttar 118361 site. Do not be surprised if there is no data available in a number ofrepparttar 118362 categories; Alexa measures growth rates of onlyrepparttar 118363 most rapidly growing sites. You want to findrepparttar 118364 highest traffic growth sites possible. Out of your first five sites pickrepparttar 118365 top two growth sites and put them torepparttar 118366 side for future use. Takerepparttar 118367 other three sites and, usingrepparttar 118368 downloadable Google tool bar (http://toolbar.google.com), find outrepparttar 118369 page rank ofrepparttar 118370 sites. Ifrepparttar 118371 page rank is lower than five I suggest putting them into your “To contact later pile” Ifrepparttar 118372 page rank is five or higher put them into your contact file. 3. Contacting Smaller Sites First Contactrepparttar 118373 smaller slower growing sites first. The reason I suggested, puttingrepparttar 118374 top two growth sites out of each five torepparttar 118375 side is because you are much more likely to get a JV and reciprocal link from a smaller site when you are first starting out. Once your site has reached a page rank of five or above AND with at least 10+ back links to quality sites you can then contactrepparttar 118376 bigger sites. Lets face it, not only dorepparttar 118377 sites that sell your Ebook want to make a percentage of each sale, they also want to increase their PR ranking and number of quality linking partners. If you go torepparttar 118378 bigger sites on day one you are much more likely to get a “no” than if you build your site rankings and links first. Big sites, above all, don’t want to have their rankings go down. So really do your JV homework and linking prior to contacting them. (OK I am finished preaching about that!) 4. Writing a Professional Contact Letter. One ofrepparttar 118379 keys to a successful JV is to prepare a professional contact letter that clearly statesrepparttar 118380 benefits (percentage of sale) thatrepparttar 118381 JV partner will receive. Another key point to state is how many sites you are linked with and their average page ranking. (Remember: five or above). It is imperative that you make your letter short, concise and clearly statingrepparttar 118382 benefits to them. This is alsorepparttar 118383 time to mentionrepparttar 118384 fact that you will providerepparttar 118385 partner site with allrepparttar 118386 necessary ad copy, pictures, banners and ongoing emails that they will need to promote your product so they can get paid. Before contactingrepparttar 118387 JV partner you will also want to set up an affiliate program through www.shareasale.com or www.clickbank.com. My point is:repparttar 118388 simpler you make things forrepparttar 118389 JV partnersrepparttar 118390 more positive responses you will have. 5. Making A Show of Good Faith. It is a very good idea prior to contacting potential JV partners to create a link on your site torepparttar 118391 potential partner’s site. Try to use their logo or links they have already created. If there is a copyright notice onrepparttar 118392 site, create a test-based ad instead. Once you set uprepparttar 118393 link, preferably on your partner’s page or home page atrepparttar 118394 bottom, you should contact each site. See our www.Home-Business-Success.biz site for an example. 6. Follow up Follow up Follow up. It is extremely important to follow up until you get a definite answer, yes or no. I suggest that you giverepparttar 118395 prospective JV site a callrepparttar 118396 day after you sendrepparttar 118397 email. One thing to remember also is that with spam filters today some of your emails will get filtered out. When you call do not be totally shocked to hear they did not receive your email. If they did not receiverepparttar 118398 email ask them if you can send a copy ofrepparttar 118399 email to them immediately. Give them your email address and ask them to add it to their address book so future emails will not be blocked.

Why Your Site Needs Fresh, Relevant Content

Written by Victor George


It is said that content is king, but today 'fresh, relevant content' isrepparttar master - or is it?

Every owner of a commercial web site knows that frequent fresh content is needed on their pages in order to achieve and maintain a high listing on search engines which actively seek fresh content. Google sends out its 'freshbot' spider to gather and index new material from allrepparttar 118354 sites which offer it. MSN Search seeks it too. I've noticed that MSN Search's spider pays a daily visit to a site of mine which has proper fresh content every day.

By incorporating fresh content, commercial web sites will remain competitive, for without it they will certainly fall downrepparttar 118355 search engine listings and lose business. Besides, having something new keeps visitors coming back and attracts potential customers.

But creating and then manually uploading fresh content onto our web sites each day is hard, time consuming work, isn't it? What we want is a way of putting daily fresh content onto our web sites easily and efficiently. Let's look atrepparttar 118356 current techniques available to us to achieve this goal and see which one offers a global solution torepparttar 118357 fresh content problem:

1) Server Side Includes (SSI'): These are HTML statements written byrepparttar 118358 webmaster and uploaded ontorepparttar 118359 server. SSI's informrepparttar 118360 server to include a specific block of text when a specific page is served to a browser or a search engine spider.

Because these scripts are compiled 'before' they are served, they remain 'visible' to search engine spiders and therefore will be seen as fresh content. Unfortunately, not all web hosts support SSI's; this is becauserepparttar 118361 server must 'read every page' onrepparttar 118362 web site as it looks for include statements, a process which clearly reduces server performance.

How many web site owners haverepparttar 118363 time to manually upload fresh HTML content onto their servers every day? Probably very few, which is whyrepparttar 118364 use of SSI's is not a global solution torepparttar 118365 fresh content problem.

2) Blogging: Google's Freshbot spider is so voracious for fresh content that it eagerly devoursrepparttar 118366 contents of common weblogs. But can a daily blog be used to influencerepparttar 118367 listing of a web page under specific keywords or phrases?

It can, but forrepparttar 118368 vast majority of web site owners, blogging is out ofrepparttar 118369 question. Putting up a daily keyword-rich business blog onto a web site is hard, time-consuming work, and it requiresrepparttar 118370 blogger to be a competent writer, too. Few business owners have time available orrepparttar 118371 competence to write something new about their products or services every day.

Blogging is therefore not a global solution torepparttar 118372 fresh content problem.

3) RSS Newsfeeds: Having newsfeeds placed on a web site is certainly an easy way of getting fresh material to appear each day. 'Really Simple Syndication' or RSS, is a fast growing method of content distribution. Newsfeed creation is an uncomplicated procedure and therefore appears to be an easy solution torepparttar 118373 fresh content problem.

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